Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

I call architecture frozen music.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Art and life are inseparable.

Life and art are inseparable.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

Architecture is crystallized music.

Life and art are not two different things.

I love art. It is uplifting.

To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where there's a definitive sense of something. I go one way and then it opens up into a million different ideas, and somehow, when you look at the art, Buddhist art, or particularly Tibetan art, you know, it's a similar thing. All of a sudden there are a million lotus leaves and you're following one to the next and to another, and I related to that, and it felt simple and easy to me. And it made me feel smart.

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.